Our Bloggers

Below is a listing of our EvoS Bloggers! Click on any photo to go to that author’s blog page, and click here to go to our Index of Blogs. Also, see our sister site This View of Life for more blogs on evolution!

	Kaitlyn Andersen is a senior at the State University of New York at New Paltz. She is currently studying Psychology and plans to go on to graduate school to pursue Mental Health Counseling. She is very active in her community. She has organized a blood drive, been a co-captain of a Relay for Life team and volunteered in an elementary school classroom all in the past year.
	Rosemarie Sokol Chang is an evolutionist trained as a psychological scientist. She is the editor of EvoS: The Journal of the Evolutionary Studies Consortium; the creator of the EvoS Consortium website and the EvoS Blogs; and co-founder of the Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology. She also has been involved in the NorthEastern Evolutionary Psychology Society since its inception. She recently edited and contributed to the book Relating to Environments: A New Look at Umwelt. Evolution Matters is a recurring blog focused on concepts and evidence of evolution by natural selection.
	Glenn Geher is professor and chair of psychology at the State University of New York at New Paltz. In addition to teaching courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, and conducting research in various areas related to evolutionary psychology, Glenn directs the campus’ EvoS program, one of the most successful, noteworthy, and vibrant features of a campus that prides itself (rightfully) on academic vibrance. In Building Darwin’s Bridges, Glenn addresses the details of New Paltz’s EvoS program as well as issues tied to the future of evolutionary studies in the rocky and often unpredictable landscape of higher education.
	Daniel Glass is a master’s student at SUNY New Paltz, and has a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. He is interested in evolutionary approaches to clinical psychology. Evolved This Way explores this burgeoning field, which uses evolution to understand, classify, and treat mental disorders and other clinical phenomena.
	Dr. Joseph Graves, Jr. received his Ph.D. in Environmental, Evolutionary and Systematic Biology from Wayne State University in 1988. His research concerns the evolutionary genetics of postponed aging and biological concepts of race in humans, with over sixty papers and book chapters published, and he hasappeared in six documentary films and numerous television interviews on these general topics. He has been a Principal Investigator on grants from the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation and the Arizona Disease Research Commission.
	Daniel Tumminelli O’Brien, PhD, is the Project Manager of the Harvard Boston Research Initiative at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. He is also a Visiting Assistant Professor at Binghamton University where he has been a key player in the development of the Binghamton Neighborhood Project. Both projects bring together academic and city agencies in the development of innovative solutions for the everyday challenges of urban life. Amidst these efforts, his own research focuses on urban social behavior. As an educator, he has concentrated on pedagogical techniques that bring evolutionary theory to classrooms outside the biological sciences.
	Steven Platek is an evolutionary cognitive neuroscientist who is Chief Editor of Frontiers in Neuroscience and Co-Editor of Evolutionary Psychology. He’s published over 60 peer-reviewed articles on topics at the intersection of evolutionary theory and human neuroscience. In addition to teaching and doing research at Georgia Gwinnett College in Lawrenceville, GA he is also a certified CrossFit trainer and runs his own CrossFit Affiliation – CrossFit Gwinnett (www.crossfit-gwinnett.com) where he uses fitness and nutritional advice to teach his athletes about ancestral living and evolutionary theory.
	William Tooke is professor of psychology at SUNY Plattsburgh. He received his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Texas at Arlington. He is interested in dimensions of moral behavior, particularly as they pertain to mate choice and other aspects of mating behavior in humans. His blog Darwin Goes to the Movies applies an evolutionary lens to film and cinema.
	David Sloan Wilson applies evolution to all aspects of humanity in addition to the rest of life, in his own research and as director of EvoS, Binghamton University’s evolutionary studies program. His latest book is Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin’s Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives. In addition to this EvoS-related blog, he also blogs for the Huffington Post. Visit his website here.
	Bo Winegard is a graduate student at Florida State University, studying social psychology under Dr. Roy Baumeister. Currently he is interested in evolutionary theories of depression and anxiety, tribalism, and human mating. His ultimate desideratum is to use a synthesis of evolutionary psychology, social psychology, and sociology to plumb the mysteries of human nature.